ENG303H1 Lecture Notes - Pathetic Fallacy, Bier, Elegy
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> consolation (grace, if you"re chosen ) beginning and end converge. Sonnet 7: octavo (unripe) -> sestet (in strictest measure) -> couplet (if i have grace) Sola fide, sola gratia (faith alone, grace alone), faith, not works, calvinist predestination. Theme of exact fulfillment, divine predestined lot mimicked and fulfilled in sonnet form, Discipline of sonnet form help him work through constellation, comfort. Parable of the talents and parable of workers in the vineyard. Sonnet 7 and reference to great taskmasters -> talents/vineyard time leads me and the will of heaven, if i have grace to use it so . Milton mobilizing talents, needs to justify that has a gift of god, sin to waste it. Third servant who got cast out into darkness, teeth gnashing . Can"t help but identify with third servant (only given 1 talent, not risking it ) Workers -> assurance that whenever one comes to salvation, will be saved.
